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Hello Los Angeles! I’m very excited to be here, giving a creative talk to MediaArts Lab & Apple ❤️

When talking about job interviews for a UX position, we often discuss how to leave an incredible impression and how to negotiate the right salary. But it’s only one part of the story. The other part is to be prepared, to ask questions and to listen carefully. Below, I’ve put...

Oh hai there! Sorry, it's been a few weeks hasn't it since the last roundup? That's why I've knocked off the 'weekly' from the title, I think these blogs will come a bit more sporadically! It's been a

Published a new lil' blog - grab a cuppa and have a read: blog.jam-factory.com/roundup-017/ https://blog.jam-factory.com/roundup-017/

In case you missed it: This September will be … smashing! 😻💚

@smashingconf is coming back to Freiburg on September 8–11, and I’m thrilled and honoured (and a bit baffled) to be part of this incredible lineup! Get your tickets, friends! 🔥😁

https://smashingconf.com/freiburg-2025/speakers/matthias-ott

Ha! 😁🎚️☀️

Lovely. First task of the day: doing “just” a few small CSS changes in a client project I haven't touched in about 5 years.

Alright…

➜ nvm use

Found '.nvmrc' with version <8.6.0>
N/A: version "v8.6.0" is not yet installed.

I already know where this is going …… 🫠😂

➜ npm install

gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!

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Howdy! 🤓 How do you all handle native #CSS Nesting at the moment? Are you using it already? And if so, are you just targeting newer browsers that support it? Or are you using PostCSS, for example?

Asking for a friend who has reduced his build process to the max (nothing but a little esbuild script) and is now hesitating to add PostCSS again… 😉

Watched a few highlight videos from the Women’s EURO with my daughter.

“They’re actually playing better than the men.”

🥰

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Friendly note: get a friendly UX bundle for Smart Interface Design Patterns 🍣 and Measuring UX 🍎 — with live UX training coming up. Jump to table of contents. In many products, setting notification channels on mute is a default, rather than an exception. The reason...

I’m trying to help a client pick a good UI framework they can start their product with, but ultimately grow into their own design system and component library. They have started development with React, which isn’t surprising, but they are also open to using a more framework-agnostic approach in the future.

Any suggestions for a really mature and solid, themeable framework as a starting point? Chakra UI? Ark UI? Radix?

In 1994 the UK voted the widget inside a can of Guinness as Invention of the Year.

The Internet came second.

Yes, yes, I know that far more people were probably drinking Guinness than using the interwebs back in 1994, but c'mon... 😂

“I don’t think there’s anything in principle, that stops machines from being conscious. […] I don’t see why they shouldn’t have emotions. […]
I think they really are thinking. And I think as soon as you make AI agents, they will have concerns.”

A wild interview with Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Prize winner and “the Godfather of AI”, especially towards the end…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giT0ytynSqg

A gate can be really useful for live sound (e.g. when you’re doing a live stream) to cut out unwanted background noise or hum with low latency when you're not speaking. Boz Digital’s “Big Beautiful Door 2” even combines this with a four-band EQ for the closed and open sections and is currently on sale ($49 - 50% with BOZ-JULY-4). I just couldn’t resist… 😅
https://www.bozdigitallabs.com/big-beautiful-door-2/

The American System of Democracy has Crashed:
https://www.theverge.com/policy/697301/trump-supreme-court-founding-fathers-july-4

#4July

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Berliners: “Sorry, cache only.”